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Nitrous

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Adjective
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ni=trous

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Nitrous has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Nitrousa. [L. nitrosus full of natron: cf. F. nitreux. See Niter.].
  •  Of, pertaining to, or containing, niter; of the quality of niter, or resembling it.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of those compounds in which nitrogen has a relatively lower valence as contrasted with nitric compounds.  [1913 Webster]
Nitrous acid (Chem.), a hypothetical acid of nitrogen HNO2, not known in the free state, but forming a well known series of salts, viz., the nitrites. -- Nitrous oxide. See Laughing gas.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Nitrous, adj. of, like, or impregnated with nitrogen, esp. in the tervalent state.

Idiom
nitrous acid a weak acid existing only in solution and in the gas phase.
Usage
Chem. formula: N2O
Etymology
L nitrosus (as NITRE), partly through F nitreux
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